More quotes by Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

"Digression is the soul of wit. Take the philosophic asides away from Dante, Milton or Hamlet's father's ghost and what stays is dry bones."
"I just want someone to hear what I have to say. And maybe if I talk long enough, it’ll make sense."
"Books were only one type of receptacle where we stored a lot of things we were afraid we might forget. There is nothing magical in them at all. The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the Universe together into one garment for us."
"I just want someone to hear what I have to say. And maybe if I talk long enough, it’ll make sense."
"But you can't make people listen. They have to come round in their own time, wondering what happened and why the world blew up around them. It can't last."